Chapter 1 The Decision

On Mount Putuo, in the main hall for the highest human council, many human Heavenly Venerates gathered. The Saint race had finally invaded, led by a True God, and their army had already entered the Divine Territory.

"Just received news that all the human Heavenly Venerate incarnations guarding the vicinity of the Radiance Great World have been killed in battle!" Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate said to the assembled Heavenly Venerates below. With even Heavenly Venerates suffering casualties, this time the Saint race was truly preparing for a full-scale war, one that couldn't be avoided.

"Leading the army are the Saint race's Tiangang God King and Piaoyu God King, both True God realm experts." Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate added. Although neither was a Creation Saint Emperor, two True Gods were still difficult for the current human race to resist.

The Heavenly Venerates frowned. Although they had already cultivated the *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities* technique, even if their incarnations were killed in battle, it wouldn't cause them any harm.

Even so, the human race was inferior to the Saint race in terms of the number of Heavenly Venerates, Half-Step True Gods, and True Gods, especially True God experts. As of now, the human race didn't even have a single one!

If the Saint race's True Gods personally took action, even if they could continuously replenish their slain incarnations, it would be difficult to win. Furthermore, the resources they had on hand were insufficient to support them replenishing their slain incarnations without limit.

"Divine Dream, what is your decision? To fight or retreat?" one of the oldest Heavenly Venerates in the Divine Territory, the Three Lives Old Man, asked.

Ordinary Heavenly Venerates had a lifespan of one hundred million years, but the Three Lives Old Man had lived for three hundred million years using secret methods. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him a living fossil of the human race. Moreover, over the long years, his strength had become extremely formidable, and although he was already beginning to decline, he still possessed strength comparable to a top Heavenly Venerate.

Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate looked at the human Heavenly Venerates in the hall, then thought of what Jiang Xuan had said previously, and slowly but firmly said, "Fight to the death!"

Her words shocked the Heavenly Venerates. Although the human race's strength had greatly increased, if they fought to the death, the final result would still be difficult to predict.

"Divine Dream, wouldn't fighting to the death..." Vast Universe Heavenly Venerate was about to ask, but Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate stopped him with a wave of her hand.

Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate said, "The 'fight to the death' I'm referring to is a 'fight to the death' for the human Heavenly Venerates!"

Seeing that the other Heavenly Venerates were confused, she continued, "All human Heavenly Venerates, all those who have cultivated the *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities*, must leave behind one incarnation to fight the Saint race to the death in the Divine Territory. As for the other incarnations, they will hide among the Divine Territory cultivators, preserve their strength, and head to the Desolate Universe!"

Many Heavenly Venerates understood. It was a plan to deceive the heavens. The Saint race didn't yet know about the existence of *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities*. Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate had already made complete preparations.

Although Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate knew that it was impossible to hide this technique forever, in order to hide it for as long as possible, she had also made the Heavenly Venerates swear that anyone who cultivated this technique could only have one incarnation active at a time, and even if an incarnation was killed in battle, they couldn't casually reveal themselves unless absolutely necessary.

This approach could also maximize the concealment of the existence of *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities*. At least in the face of the current Saint race offensive, they wouldn't expose this trump card.

Vast Universe Heavenly Venerate pondered for a moment, then looked at Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate and said, "Divine Dream, what about Tai Xuan... He has been in seclusion and doesn't seem to have cultivated *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities*."

In the entire Divine Territory, only those top Heavenly Venerates, as well as Divine Dream and Emperor Release Heaven, two Half-Step True Gods, knew that *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities* came from Jiang Xuan. As for the other Heavenly Venerates, they all thought that Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate had obtained it by chance.

Moreover, only Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate knew the whereabouts of Jiang Xuan's true body, because she had to deliver the resources that the Heavenly Venerates exchanged for *One Qi Transforming into Three Purities* to Jiang Xuan.

As for the matter that Vast Universe Heavenly Venerate was now asking about, Jiang Xuan and Divine Dream had already mentioned it, so Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate simply waved her hand and said, "Tai Xuan Heavenly Palace will accompany my incarnation when it evacuates. As for Tai Xuan... there's no need to worry. I have contact with him."

Seeing that Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate didn't elaborate, Vast Universe Heavenly Venerate didn't continue to ask. He and Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate were old comrades, and he knew Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate well enough to know that there must be a reason, and one that couldn't be stated clearly. Asking would be futile.

Divine Dream Heavenly Venerate glanced around and, seeing that the Heavenly Venerates no longer had any doubts, waved her hand to tear open the void, pointing to the void and saying, "In that case, let us go and meet the Saint race together!"

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This was a vast and boundless land, without end in sight. Scattered across this land were countless broken bones, filled with a deathly stillness and an aura of destruction.

The endless broken bones were left behind by powerful demons and the Thirty-Three Heavens hegemons from hundreds of millions of years ago. Although weathered by time, they still shimmered with the light of the law.

Darkness, killing intent, and death – that was the theme of this land. This was the Eternal Wall of the Dark Abyss!

However, no one knew that within this desolate world lay another mysterious space-time. And in that space-time, Jiang Xuan sat cross-legged, with three strange objects floating in front of him.

One of them, shaped like a Rubik's Cube, was profound and immeasurable – the "God" artifact among the three great artifacts, the Stone of Eternity.

Previously, Lin Ming had received a lot of help from Jiang Xuan in the Asura Road, and had even been guided in his Divine Script Art. So when Jiang Xuan proposed borrowing the Stone of Eternity temporarily, although Lin Ming was surprised that Jiang Xuan knew about it, he ultimately chose to lend the Rubik's Cube to Jiang Xuan.

The second treasure was a black-red jewel, emitting a vast essence – the "Essence" artifact, the Primordial Spirit Pearl.

Jiang Xuan's Soul Clan incarnation had snatched it from the hands of the Creation Saint Son, and then killed the Half-Step True God who had come to hunt him down, finally truly taking this treasure into his possession.

As for the third, it was a card-shaped crystal, filled with the origin energy of heaven and earth. It was the most mysterious of the three great artifacts, the Purple Card, also known as the Origin Purple Crystal!

The Origin Purple Crystal was the key to constructing the Eternal Wall. In the past, the Origin Purple Crystal was controlled by the master of the Asura Road. After the master of the Asura Road and the Immortal King joined forces to suppress the abyss demons, the master of the Asura Road used the Origin Purple Crystal to create the Eternal Wall, sealing the Dark Abyss.

Of course, the core of the Eternal Wall was the Origin Purple Crystal, but in addition to the Origin Purple Crystal, there was also the grand formation left behind by the master of the Asura Road, plus Saint Beauty's first life sacrificing herself, which completely sealed the Dark Abyss.

As for where this place was, it was discovered by Jiang Xuan's God Clan incarnation in the Dark Abyss. Over the years, the God Clan incarnation and the Demon Clan incarnation had each developed independently. In addition to leading the ancient races in the abyss, the God Clan incarnation had also been searching for the space-time node leading to the space where the Origin Purple Crystal was located.

Fortunately, he was strong enough in the Way of Space-Time to finally find this node and enter this space.

"Although the time is short, I can barely control the three great artifacts."

Jiang Xuan had many incarnations. In the past, his true body had also separated a thought clone to enter the Stone of Eternity and comprehend it. Jiang Xuan's mastery of the Stone of Eternity was even far above Lin Ming's.

As for the Origin Purple Crystal, the God Clan incarnation had been separating power to comprehend it for a long time, so the degree of mastery was not low.

As for the Primordial Spirit Pearl, he had also comprehended it for a long time after snatching it, and could also control some of its abilities.

"Legend has it that gathering the three artifacts can grant one the power of creation and eternal immortality. I... can be considered to have gathered them now, right?" Jiang Xuan looked at the three great artifacts floating in front of him, and couldn't help but think.

"With the three great artifacts gathered, it's also time to break through to the True God realm." The three great artifacts represented the three great systems of this world, encompassing all the rules of the Thirty-Three Heavens. Even if they were mastered by True Gods, they could only use a negligible portion of their power.

After all, in this world, each of the three major systems had eleven cultivation paths, but neither the human race nor the Saint race could cultivate all of them. They only cultivated one path.

In the past, only the master of the Asura Road had managed to cultivate all thirty-three great daos, becoming a God in each life, and ultimately transcending the True Gods. Even if he hadn't truly transcended, he was closest to that level.

After him was the Immortal King, who mastered the Stone of Eternity and created the supreme God-cultivation technique *Sacred Tome*, also a powerhouse who surpassed the True Gods. A hundred billion years ago, the Immortal King was the strongest besides the master of the Asura Road.

As for now, Jiang Xuan was only borrowing the origin power of the human system in the three great artifacts, using the origin power of the Three Paths of God-cultivation, Qi-gathering, and Body-refinement of the Shenluo Heaven as a source, sublimating to the extreme, and completely transforming!